What Phrases and Words Make You See Red?

[El Diablo]

so and so is such and such it's not funny

seems to imply there are other cases of some other bastard being such and such and it is funny

 

[mongoose]

"I could care less" amazing how many people have that one wrong.

Couples calling each other "babe"

 

[Cherry_poppins]

"I could care less" amazing how many people have that one wrong.

Couples calling each other "babe"

7 guys in my cricket club call each other babs which is short for Barbara but none of them know the context of it

 

[Souths Till I Die]

Referees: Ashley Klein...

 

[Knightmare]

"Facts have a left-wing bias"

Translation: Somebody with the same opinions as mine said my opinions are usually fact, so obviously it's factual.

 

[El Diablo]

you have to lose one to win one

biggest load of shit and it doesn't make you feel better after your team loses a GF

 

[Life's Good]

Todd Greenberg - NRL CEO.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

you have to lose one to win one

biggest load of shit and it doesn't make you feel better after your team loses a GF

2009 still stinging, big fella?

 

[El Diablo]

2009 still stinging, big fella?

and 2001

your blokes had to lose 5

 

[Coparugby]

Skewers/skewered etc

“The comedian skewered the politician”

 

[Life's Good]

I worked with an older bloke for a few years & he struggled distinguishing between ‘specific’ & ‘pacific’ as in ‘the pacific part of the strategy....’
I’m not surprised he never climbed the corporate ladder.

 

[Incorrect]

I worked with an older bloke for a few years & he struggled distinguishing between ‘specific’ & ‘pacific’ as in ‘the pacific part of the strategy....’
I’m not surprised he never climbed the corporate ladder.

Mate of mine used to work with a bloke who used to say 'prophetic' instead of 'pathetic'.... He'd say "geez the service at the post office is prophetic"....

 

[Life's Good]

The repeated incorrect use of ‘learning’ & ‘learning curve’.

‘It’s a big learning curve for me’. No it’s not you fool.
‘It’s a big learning for me’

 

[Barkley]

“Last Drinks”

 

[gitano]

Dictate terms

 

[Bazal]

‘It’s a big learning for me’

That makes absolutely no sense. A big learning what?

 

[Life's Good]

That makes absolutely no sense. A big learning what?

I’ll spell out below what it represents based my post HS education and various training & development courses.
- ‘Learning curve’ represents the journey you are on.
- ‘Learning’ is acquiring the specific knowledge, skills, experience as part of the journey.
Granted, it may have morphed into something else now but for me that’s what it is.

 

[Bazal]

I’ll spell out below what it represents based my post HS education and various training & development courses.
- ‘Learning curve’ represents the journey you are on.
- ‘Learning’ is acquiring the specific knowledge, skills, experience as part of the journey.
Granted, it may have morphed into something else now but for me that’s what it is.

My point is the word learning cannot function as a noun in that sentence the way you've set it up.

It may not be a learning curve (which usually refers to an exponentially increasing level of learning) but it's also not simply a "learning". It needs to be a learning *something*...

 

[Life's Good]

My point is the word learning cannot function as a noun in that sentence the way you've set it up.

It may not be a learning curve (which usually refers to an exponentially increasing level of learning) but it's also not simply a "learning". It needs to be a learning *something*...

True & thats why I mentioned ‘experience, skills, knowledge’ in the context of what is being learned.

 

[Willie Ray]

"finds his front"
stop it....just f**king stop it.